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The RECONTRA translator, a simple connectionist translator between natural languages, has been able to approach several simple MT tasks. In this paper we create a variant of the RECONTRA topology which takes into account what seems to be the natural work of the human brain in the translation process: complete paragraphs or sentences are translated, not individual words. Thus, the RECONTRA translator is modified to present as output several words at the same time. Experimentally, this simple modification has shown an improvement in the translation results.
Partially supported by the Generalitat Valenciana Project number GV/2007/105.
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Casañ, G.A., Castaño, M.A. (2008). An Improved Connectionist Translator between Natural Languages. In: Geffner, H., Prada, R., Machado Alexandre, I., David, N. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2008. IBERAMIA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88309-8_29
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